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Cultural distance and conflict-related sexual violence
Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2020
This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence … economic, family, and societal arrangements, we construct and validate an ethnic-based gender inequality index. We control for … a large set of fixed effects and find empirical support for two interrelated hypotheses. First, gender-unequal armed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421510
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483661
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Rome, electing foreign representatives to the city government : governance strategies
Bracalenti, Raffaele; Crane, Kristine M. - In: Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and …, (pp. 165-176). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922058
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Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: International handbook on the economics of migration, (pp. 259-275). 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197534
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Cultural diversity in South East Europe
Simkus, Albert - In: Handbook of doing business in South East Europe, (pp. 395-427). 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426201
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Routledge handbook of Asian diaspora and development
Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar (ed.) - 2021
Development Potential of Asian Diasporas -- Diaspora, Homeland, and Development -- Gender, Generation and Identities …, race relations, ethnic studies, gender studies, globalization, Asian studies and research methods." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313860
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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015
We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482352
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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565957
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The role of culture on self-employment
Marcén, Miriam - 2013
There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711520
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555092